"Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats." (Woody Allen)

"I don't subscribe to the theory that we only become truly adult when our parents die; we never become truly adult." (Michel Houellebecq, from Plateforme: Au milieu du monde)

"It is no secret nowadays, particularly to women, that many American males, even those of middle-aged appearance, wearing suits and holding down jobs, are in fact, incredible as it sounds, still small boys inside." (Thomas Pynchon)